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Poetry.
Home From Camp-Meeting-
The moon hono whit.' al.'n the r.ia.l.
The summer nifjht still.
Anl the morning itr Uke a torchlight gluwe-1
From the top of Three oak Hill.
The xuea-low i;rasie lej the air
With a ent ileli.-iou-ly fine.
An I the pi.lerii'.n hl gussamer snare
I'njm the llJok::u-k tree to the pine.
TUon-an.ls of inserts faintly sung
In the warmth of the summer nifrlit.
The bat flew low, an.l the great owl "wnug
L.'ke a bell in the mystic light
Theripe corn rustled its yellow blade.
The fiel.l-por.pii-s weke frota their swoon .
An.l the leaves j:" the wild grape lightly playeJ
la the ry f the riain;; moon.
IVn th. road at a leisure pace
Ko le Pete on hia ae-1 mare.
Whose o'.nmsy foot left a little trace
of d.ist in the silvery air.
The leather reins were .liopped, aii-l liUD..-
On the si.Mli -horn, ami a song
Strangely pitlietic the negro sung
As his pielial.l cantere l sloc;.
The t-aae wa jueer and the words were oiM.
Bu: the music fille-l the ti'.ht.
As he suii;; of the womlertul love of GoJ
An 1 the hir.... ro'oe of Lite,
liis hlaci fact n:ue ! to til-- starry sky
Kt-deoted stars in tears,
Forlvte was lir-y with seer s eye
He saw l-eyon-l the yeure.
I'ete was a preacher ol.l aa-1 gray.
lie preachej vhej he was a slave.
An 1 he preached at the dawn of lreedom s day,
"le Lord has pwer to save."
A'a I a. any a preacher talking to-day
About ti-e hearcnly coal
Ha 1 better go to his closet and pray
For the faith of that African's soul.
Froiu the Nashville christian Advocate.
LETTER IE0JI BISHO? MABVIN-
xo. xx.
-COXTINTED.
But, I must hasten on to Agra
This was the i Lief seat of the illus
trioas Akbar, and from calleJ Akbar
ibad. The fort at this place is the
est we Lave seen, the walls bein
vry massive, ve'y high, and crowned
-rf.th crinolated battlements. Akbar
buiit a vtiy large palace here, which
ia g till standing r.nd in a fair state of
preservation. I cannot undertake to
describe it. It has one front on the
Tuinna, and covers a large area. The
rtv:table marble liligree work is seen
here broken at one place by a can
non-ball. In the basement is a very
labyrinth of columns and walls where.
it is said, the women of the imperial
household were accustomed to play at
hide and seek In a email court
sncuiataKe to be twenty-five feet
square, it is surrounded on all sides
y "ie open screen work of marble of
which I have frequently spoken.
There are eleven panels of this work
on each side, forty-four in all, and
the pattern of each panel is diverse
from that of any other.
Here at Secundra the Englir-h
Church Mission has a printing press
and Orphanage. The Orphanage is
supplied with inma'es mainly by
foundlings exposed to perish, from
which fate they are saved by the police
and brought to this Christian refuse.
There ia induLitable proof that in
fanticide is still practiced in many
par: s of the country, notwithstanding
all the efforts of the English authori
ues xo suppress it. A be victims are
1 i mi
aiways gins xuey are some imes
killed oil' right, anc sometimes left in
the open helds to die. This is the
religion that some 'large minded'
Englishmen a-e fain to patronize as
being about as good as Christianity.
j Hundreds of times in this tour have I
been overwhelmed with emotion of
gratitude that I and my children
were born Christiaas. May a merci
ful God pardon any want of ardor I
may have been gui.ty of in pressing
the conquests of the cross.
Ktturnirjg to Agra we may visit two
clebrated mosques But they are
much like the one at Dehli, already
described.
Several hundred Mussulmans were
assembled, and scaitered about over
the vast marble paved terrace of one,
when we visited i near the hour of
prayer. When toe moment arrived,
the mullah, or priest, came out and
ordered them into line, faeinc thi
cicg Mecca, as well.
We were obliged t y stand on side of
the terrace, so that our view was a
distant ne, Hnd we coald not see
well how matters proceeded. But we
heard a sort of chan-, wtiich, I sup
pose, was the recitation of a prayer.
The whole affair lasted only a minute
or two. The worshipers were scarce
ly well pi. iced in line ttl! they dispers
ed. Manj of them crowded about
us, when we took ;he opportunity to
ask theui several questions abont
their worship, which one or two, who
spoke English imperfectly, r.nswered
cheerfully X tiiougut, :
. eajrerly. The done of one cf these
Now yon are to remember that
inside and outside this great struc
ture 186 feet in diameter and 243
"'o" ia mo iinetsi ana wnitebt
marble, polished to the utmost. On
il. . m
me inner wan ot tDe great circular
room under the dome, for about three
feet above the pavement, there are
flowers and foliage elegantly carved in
relief. Above that the wall is covered
partly by flowers inlaid with precious
stones of diverse colors. What an
amount of delicate work! It is uosi-
tively inconceivable.. Othar parts of
the wall, inside and out, are occupied
with texts of the Koran,, inlaid ia tie
white marble with black marble, ele
gantly cut in the Persian character,
and tilting so nicely that the closest
inspection scarcely shews the joint.
We fifty 'Vnin.i.u l , I P
. -uu-mru or sin fTTTTi fr-nr-ni n a ttt
a 1 n r. r. . r. 1 n a w m 1
and be L
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0 m m u n i c a t c i .
It is affirmed that the entire Koran
here transcribrid, but this is doubted.
The real sarcophagus is in a base
ment room in the centre but the or
uBuicui.u uue uu me pavea noor un
der the dome. It is richly inlaid with
mosaic work in flowers of precious
stones, and is surrounded by marble
screen- ork of the finest kind. The
ninety nine names cf God are inlaid
in black marble. The Enmoror lies
by her side, but his sarcophagus
seems an intrusion, as the place wa
evidently prepared for only one. He
was to have had a mausoleum on the
opposite side of the river, just like
this, the decaying foundations of
which still remain. It was to be
joined to this by a marble bridge.
lnt intestine feuds disturbed the
close of his life and shortened . his
reign, so that Lis design wa frnstra
UU, and he sleeps here by the side of
his be'ov.-d " az
There be those who say that the
architecture of th s building is fau'iy
May b- so, but I cannot see it. It it
one of a very few buildings I have
seen that gives me a feeling of com
ple satisfaction. I do not nnder
stand the principles of architectural
art sufficiently to account for my
taste, the Taj is wondiously beauti
ful.
I never became enthusiastic about
p.cy of these old buildings till I saw
this. I think the Capitol at Washing
ton more beautiful than anv other.
To be
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Condition of Church Memb.'rsUp-
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above there is a pavement of marL I m0SqUtSf flanked with gracef.il kiosks,
1 i it.. a ! . . .
in sauares. on wuicu. ine iraamu
has it, the Mogul used to play chess,
or some such game, right royaiiy,
having for his 'chessmen' the beauti
fal girls of the harem, who moved
from square to square as they were
directed. A tank, stocked with fish,
was in a larger court, and the gallery
from which Akbai used to drop his
hook vas pointed out to us. The
throne-room was. an open court, and
the throne, still preserved, is a slab
of black marble. In this slab there
are two points of a decided red eolev
from which a slight red tint shades
off for several inches. Our guide told
as of this throne before we saw it,
and assured us that it had shed blood
twice; once when the Mahratta inva
der, the Rajah of Bhurtbore, sat on
it. and again when Lord Ellenboro, a
Govern ir general of India, did the
6-ime. When we expressed our dis -belief
of the fact he took us to the
place and proved it triumphantly by
ehowing us the very blood stain, in
delible in the rock; proof incontrover
tible that id did bleed, and that when
those very two men sat on it. But
use has rendered it insensible to ha
miliation for when I seated myself on
it,it did not even so muchis give a
grant.
The description of .the bath-room
of the harem I give in the language
of Bayard Taj lor : 'The most curious
part of the palace is the Shith JIuhul,
or Palace of Glass, which is an orient
al bath, tho chambers and passagee
whereof are adorned with thousands
of Bmall mirrors, disposed in the most
intricate designs. The water fell, in a
broad sheet, into a marble pool over
brilliant lamps, and the fountains are
bo constructed as to be lighted from
within. Mimic cascades tumbled from
the walls over slabs of veined marble
into basins so curiously carved that
the motion of the water produced the
appearance of fish. This bath must
once have realized all the fabled
BDlendors of Arabian histoiy. The
chambers of the Sultans and the open
court connecting them are filled with
fountains '
Akbar'a mausoleum is eight miles
from the city. It was built by his
son, and proudly named Stcundra
' Alexandria for was not Akbar an-
other Alexan ier ? It is a massive
etructure, imposing in the distant
view, bat near at hand the front ele
vation, a sort of portico of only one
" story, projects bo as to conceal the
3 really lofty summit, and give the pile
a squat appearance. The sarcojthagt
; are U6U illy under the c'ome of these
; buildings' but this one is si
from almost all others in having no
dome, the sarcophagus resting on a
marble pavement on the summit, hav
ing tne ueavenn lor its dom. it n
t covered by cloth heavily ornamented
?. with gold thread. The pavem nt
is s lofty as to command a very ex
tended landscape. Like so many of
the larger domes, it is of white marble
Taylor imagined, that when seen from
a distance, it looked like a silver bub
ble, ready to be brushed away at any
moment or something of that eort
which I suppose is very poetical, and
which has the additional merit of
being all poetry.
Bat the gens of Mogul architecture
. 1 rTt "1 r a
is tne iai. Jiumtaz -uunui, or
Moomtaz Bibi, was the favorite wife
of Shah Jehan, the builder of the
m"st famois buildings of Dehli, al
ready mentioned. Mumtaz Bibi was
contracted in domestic colloquy, to
Taz Bibi, or Taj Bibi a very sweet
pet name. She died early, and the
bereaved monarch erected this most
splendid of Ind an mausoleums to her
w . . t ail 1 m
memory, it stand3 on tne Danss 01
the Jumna a mile below the city of
Agra. Why it was not placed at Dehli
I ki.ow not.
Iu visiting it you enter first a court,
and there, leaving your gharry, enter
the grounds from the south by a
massive and very high gate of red
sandstone. It must be fifty feet high,
and is ornamented with elaborate
carvings. Having passed this portal
you have the Taj in full view through
an avenu of trees. Along this ave
nue you pass through the park, on
the side of which it stands. The
grounds are beautifully laid off and
filled with trees and shrubbery, being
kept up at a great expense by the
Government. The avenue is a p-.. . "
w.y from the gate t the terrace on
which the building stands that is,
it is paved on the sides, the center
being sunk some three feet to contain
water, playing in it originally from
fountains. At the end of the avenue
you mount a terrace by a few stone
steps, and a few stefs farther on,
another terrace which rises perhaps
twenty feet above the first. This ter
race is one hundred yards square, and
is paved with white marble, polished
so that the glare of the hot sun upon
it is blinding. From tho center of
this elevated pavement rises the won
derful building. The main .body is
an irregular octagon, having four
lot-g and f jur short sides, with the
external sides broken up by entrances
and recasses. It is surmounted in
the center by a very lofty dome of the
most gracelul pattern I ever saw
Each of tLe short sides is surmounted
by a smaller dome. Between the
central and exterior domes is a circle
of most eleffant kiosks .
On entering the building you find
one piincipal apartment under the
central dome, having an unobstructed
elevation from the pavement to the
top of the dome of say 200 feet. This
apartment is a perfect circle. At
each corner, outside of this, thero are
(-.mailer rooms.
but to the Tnj I surrendered.
nvn . ....... .1 : .
enli, and epfcia'!y wl en I saw the
Kootub from thj lop of the minaret,
eleven miles awav. clear cut against
the sky, the tapering shaft being the
only object to break the dead circle of
the horizon; and yet more when I
came near it and saw i springing from
its massive plinth in just proportion
of diameter and height, challenging
the very clouds with its summit. But
the Jieautiful never took absolute
possession of me till I cams here.
The echo in the d.nie of the Taj
has been pronounced by traveled
men the best in the world. We tried
it A sharp, short shout reb.mnds from
fifty points at once, and touches and
bounds oft again, and turns somer
6aults, sp'its itself into fragments and
shreds, and careers around, reverber
ating and answering itself as if it
were intoxicated wi'h the beauty of
the place, dying out at last so reluct
antly and slowly that it is impossible
to say when you cease to hear it.
Brother Hendrix made it resound wih
the name of our Lord, and we sung
the Doxology together with a loud
voice and full hearts.
Men 20,000, years 22 these fac
tors give the sum of labor crystalized
here.
At Allahabad, at sunrise, Sunday
morning, we were met by Brother
Osborne, pastor of the M E. Church,
and taken to his house How did he
know we were coming? Perhaps Dr.
Waugb. wrote him; I know no "What
a sweet a'mosphere of Christian hos
pitali y we breathed under his roof'
and what a hallowed service of the
holy supper we had with his Chun b!
He is an Indo European by birth, an
intelligent gentleman by instinct and
culture, and, by grace, a devoted and
efficient Christian pastor. One of tne
most interesting sights we have had
was his daughter, twelve years old, in
charge of a native Sunday-school and
managing it to admiration. I invol
untarily invoked God's blessir g on
the child and L r work.
O.u sight seeing in India was done,
except what we m ghtsee at Bombay,
whither we hastened, for there were
letters there from home. But I have
mentioned only a few of the objects
in which I was interested.
I cannot begin to describe tbe
country from Allahabad to Bombay,
nor the scenery of the Ghats, nor
what we saw in Bombay. In another
communication I must say something
of tbe Parsees, who are in Bombay
50,000 strong, and how they dispose
of their dead the most revolting
thing j e ; and a word about Elephan
ta, the wonderful cave temple which
we visited.
We were six days in Bombay, and
had much dehghlul intercourse with
the pastors and people of the M. E.
Church, worshiping with them on
Wednesday and Friday evenings, and
on the Lord's-day.
E. M. Mabyin.
Steamer Australia, Arabian Sea,
lat. 14 N., Ion, 57 E., March, 1G, 1877.
There is a difference of opiwon as
to what the condition of Church
membership is Even in o ur ov,n
communion, where the law governing
in the case is clear and Bpecitic, there
is division. "There is only one con -dition
previou-ly required of those
who desire admission into tliese SO
cipties ' now the MetW3t Erfi
r.al Riid ofher Cmuclios 1 it UeHire
ffce from the wrath to conic and to bu
saved from their sins. But .wherever
this is really fixed in the soirl, it will
be shown by its fruits' . In the bap
tisnial ceremony, and also the form of
reception and recognition of persons
as members of the Church, there is
nothing that varies from it or con
flicts with if. There are, however,
queiiti ns upon other points, such as
to faith, willingness to be subject to
the discipline of the Church, attend
ance upon its ordinances and the
support of its institutions. The ques
tiona bearing directly upon the sub
ject ander consideration, are few and
simple. "Dost thou renounce th e
devil and all his works, the vain pomp
and glory of the world, with all cove
tous desires of the same, and the car -
nal desires of the flesh, so that thou
wilt not follow or be led by them ?"'
The an-wer is, 'T renounce them all."
Wilt thou then obediently keep
God's holy will and commandments,
and walk in the same all the days of
thy life I' Ans. I will endeavor so to
lo, God being my helper. ' Iu the
form of reception uf persona into the
Church, "the promi e and vo. of re
pentance, faith and obedience, con
tained in the bapti mal covenant,"' are
ratified and coufirmed This is all of
the ritnal upon this point The ques
tions "Have vour sins been foreiven?'
Have you been converted! ' etc are
not f und in it. Thai it would be bet
tcr for every one presenting himself
as a candidate for Ohurcii member
ship, to realize all this in his own
consciousness, I frankiy admit. But
a lack of this should not serve as a
bp.r to r LwrioD rlad.- j tTM-
At this point some of us nave fallen'
into error. Who is it. What is
right and proper, and therefore, duty,
in this particular t This is what, we
want to know. I have not always
entertained the opinion as expressed
above. Believe it or not, I am in con
flict with some. This difference is
praclica ly bad Once I was gi-ing
an invitation for persons to jm the
Church 1 aid : Ye that "desire to
flee from he wrath to com, and to
be saved from ' your sins,' 4 and in
tend to lead a new life following the
eomntandments" of God, and desire to
unite with our branch of the Church
come forward and give me your hand .
At this point I was interrupted by
my presiding elder who got behind
me, with the expression "say convert
ed.'' Who was right ? This difference
I believe still exists between us. At
any rate I have neve;- changed my
opinion. Jt exists between many
others, unless there have been nuoier
ous and rapid changes of lale
To make the rule "converted ' an
invariable one would not be wise. To
take every person presenting himself,
into the Church, without assurance of
his sincerity and heartfelt repentance,
and "a desire to flee from the wrath
to coo. e and to be saved from his
sins." would be worse. The discipline
takes a middle ground and leaves
practicalities to the common sense and
judgment of the pastor.There is clanger
thatpersons,who come into the Church
as seekers, will stop right where they
are when they join. But this shonld
bri guarded against. Such persons
ought to receive instruction and en
couragment Many, very many
sincerely penitent persons, Wesley
like, have gone into the Church, and
ministry even, and have persevered
until they could rest in that "perfect
love" which "casteth out all fear." The
danger to which they are liable should
not keep them from the Church. Are
they not liable to greater dangers out
of it 1 But does not the very same
danger lie in 1 heir way if thev do not
join the Church ? Besides do not
many who profess to be converted,
ctop just where it is alleged that se6k
ers are liable to stop, viz, just where
they are when they joined theChareh?
Sj far as we can judge they do, as to
their growth in grace and in the
knowledge and love of God and of
Christ. If theie is any movement it
is on the retrograde line. It would
be better to have ten unconverted
persons in tbe Church, who are truly
penitent and seeking to be saved from
their sins, than to have a hundred,
who make loud cries of conversion,
but whose religion does not outlast,
if, indeed it lasts a - long as, the meet
ing at which they made the profession.
To the former, the Church would
be of benefit and they would be of
benefit to the Church. In the latter
case there is lit le or no benefit either
way.
Confercnca Hin.r.s
FroiM
" tin- S.,uU-rn CMni;
(iUB. Dixon: T ,
tUUUtlilI
endorse fnllv
frd yon and the Hot.ston- Methodic
T n UU8 subJ,ct The first time I
'jpr heard the word .iSlJd in ,n
the Conference of wik t
Vi'S.n " some bihteen
J lliilC ('onfWf-iinn Viots !
long noted for its devotion to Method
ist law and order, its long lins of
memberhip untarnished by affiliation
with fraud of any sort, and its ieci rd
showing tae most nn selfish devo"ion
on the part of its niaibeiship for a
long se-ies of years . Yon may well
conceiv?, then, that the bare suspi
cion of the existence of such a thing
among fuch a ho ly of men was horri
tie
It mist have been on'y a suspi
cion tie careless utterance of a word
by one lot properly estimating its
weight f meaning for to my think
ingthemim who would deliberately
enteiinto a conspiracy fraudulently to
effectreligious ends, would not stop at
falsehood, but even dare murder to
ensur; success. The individual, if
ever laving much, must certainly have
loS' ai sense of religion, and
"live stolen the livery of Heaven
'o serve the LVvil in."
I rust the word wiil be put out of
use u connection with religious bod
ies a least, and that when chicaaery
and lickery have to bo resorted to.
toad ance ambitious aud wicked men,
they nil not mix up religion with
their cheming. It must ba many,
many long years before the body cf
whicht write can be governed by any
suchwuked combination Truth and
righeousaess must becoms a by-word
ere such .m event happens .
Via.tob
and drawings and that be never an
swered my inquiries. His excuse was
from J,,ius L. Clemmons that at that time he had no faith in
the project and thought it unneces
sary to answer me. The files of the
Globe of that day will hhow this.
Whether Morse, a partner of Page,
ever profited by my suggestions to
Ijttter
Facts in Jlegard to the Invention
of the Electric Telegraph.
Louisviixk, Ky , Jul 2, 1877
To the editor of the Raleigh Nexos
.Sin: -Mv attention has been called
to a communicati .n, or rather au ex M Page is ouly a matter of suspicion
trfipfr. from :i i"mrniinipftf.inn f mm t I Wltll me. I have no proof further
Rev. M L. Wood to your paper, iuJ
rcgara to tne original inventor ot tne'
gent cinen b-:
oriow and Joy.
BY B. H ST01DAED.
Tcil me what is sorrow9 X .g a gardcu bed
ried it in my yiith so royred.
To weave it in a garland for my !- -ll
pricked my hand, I let it dr.P again,
Aod cow I look and long fur n ain.
Tell mo whit is sorrof f It t an emlL-ea sea.
And what is joy f Ir is a little pearl,
Round which the liters whirl;
I divtd deep down- .hey gave it up to me.
To keep it wh -re mf c JSily jewels he;
It dazzled me. i ia it run again.
And now I look aid loa; tor it in vaia-
Tell me what isiorrow ? It is a gloom y cage.
And what isjjy ? It is a Httto Mrd,
Whose soni therein is heard;
Opening the ioor -for I was never eos
I took it fren its perch; with gu lden rae
It hit me; Ht, I let it g "fjuin.
And now Hook and long for it ia vain.
Tell me vhen my sorrow shall anilcl. ended bj ?
And wien return Lhe.i y that 1-uig since lied ?
Not tili the tfxrdea- bol
Restores the ro?e; not till the endless sea
Restores the pearl; not till the gloomy cage
ReBtoresthc bird; not poor old man till age.
Which sorrow is iisoil, is youth again;
And so I look and long for it in vain .
ilUBlSE.---- w. oaviutr mat Jl ' -.i,.ju
was a slinifUt of Rindoiph Macou
Colleg , Va , aud a ciassm.ite of mine.
He is not mistaken, how. ver, iu re
presenting that ray friends claim for
me some part of tbe honor of sug
gesting thatinven ion. I was a stud
ent at llandolph Macon College from
1833 to 1S37 inclusive. It 'vas in the
year 1833 that the suggestions, draw
ings and exp'anations alluded to by
the gentleman were made by me.
Having been absent from North
Carolina for twenty-seven years I do
not know whether certain citizens of
that State who were fellow students
of mine are yet living or not
If the llev. Baxter Gegg, or J. W .
Cameron, once editor of the Wades
boro Argus, are yet living, he or they
will test fy to all the fac s connected
with this matter. Thure are others
who are familar with ihe.ni whose
mimes I do not remember. My
drawings of the telegraphic wire, etc ,
were made around the wa'ls of my
room, and often made tha jest of my
vistors. I was regarded as a viion-
arv. and no neraon ever agreed with
me that it could be done. My ex
planations all wem for nanght.
saw it as clearly myself at that time
as I do to day, and had I not been
devoted to my general collegiate
course, and very much prejudiced
against 'patent rights,' I should then
have put my suggestions into practice
and applied for a patent. As it was
pursued the matter no further than
theoretic suggestion with drawings
and explanations of the agencies and
machinery by which telegraphic com
raunications at any distance could be
mide.
than the c renmsf ances above
ed.
After this I sai i but little abo
detail
Put Life Into Your Work-
A young lean's interest and dutj
both dictate that he should make him
self indispensable to his employers.
He should be so industrions, prompt
and careful that the accident of his
temporary absence shoull be noticed
by his being missed. A young man
should make his employer his friend.
1V ll li ! gii''ilUHi Mil'
r
qui UN
is not his place to do, will get the
cold shoulder. There is a story that
George Washington once helped roll
a log that one of his corporals would
1837, I have been devoted to pro- not handle' ani1 the Greatest Emperor
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my conception into practice, a
ing that for this reason I was entitl
to less ci edit than the man, who not
only had the intellectual conception,
but the energy to make it useful to
the world.
Since my graduation from colhge
in
ffissional rmrsnita and have lonir since of Kussia worked as a shipwright in
ceased to care whether the world England-to learn the business.-
knows my connection with the tele- ibat 8 Just wliat J03 want d
,.,, r nrt energetic, look and act with alacrity,
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T Wa .WnP.I tins communication laa" au ,ulB'Bl m Juur mpoyer8
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nmr. in norrflfit the errors info cess, woik as uiougn me Business
mv Wnd h Lv., falkn and to was your own anJ let 7" niployer
vindicate mvself airainst the sueer of kuow tbat he may Place absolute reli-
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tlnl A AT. Wnddell. who seems to M""5" lu -"ul "UIU nuu uu uur
thmV mv n,fM.in. an absurdity. Be B"f'; We Jour mind on your
Respectfully,
Junius Ij. Clemmons.
Temptation.
business; because it is that which is
going to help you, not those outside
attractions which some of the 'boys'
are thinking about. Take a pleasure
in work; do not go about it in a list-
We have had a great deal to say to iess formai manner, but with alacrity
our young friends about temptation, antl cheerfulness, and remomber that
because in youth a person s suscept- wmiQ working thus for others, you a
ibilities are greater than at any other I iaying tne foundation of your own
time of life. There is much to be sacces8 ;n life.
sai.! besides tellincr a Derson what he
should avoid, or admonishing him to Advantages of Crying.
shun this or that. Ibe best way to French nhvsician is out in a lone
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avoid a thing is to cultivate something (i;ssertatioii on tho advantages of
antagonis'ic to it; in fact, if one does 1 groaning and crying in general, and
not do this, his chances ot success-1 etipK.iaiiy during burgical operations.
fully carrjing out his resolves are on- He contenjs that groaning and cry-
ly half what they miglit be. ii a : are twQ and operations by
person can acquire a relish for good, wnjcu natnre allays anguish; that
wholesome, improving society, ne win thoso patients who cive way to their
be in less danger than if he simply J naturai feeh'ngs more speedily recover
shunned bau company, ana tne same from Bccijent8 anj operations than
may be said of a gooJ many otner thoge wllo Bnp.JO80 jfc unworthy a man
things. Among the greatest protect- to betray sucu symptoms of cowardice
j ive agencies is a taste for reading. I aa either to groan or cry.
I was regarded as very ex j rne seldom sees a person of such 1 jjq teua G a maQ who reduced his
Hie 'Awfully Profound" Minster-
He deals in metaphysics; talks about
tLe laws of perception, the system of
consequences, hypothesis, peripatetic
doctrines, and opoL-gotics, uuvil hisau
dience can hardly see their hand b-.-fore
l heir face. H3 has a learned way of
pushmg back his spectacles, a learned
way of clcariug his throat, a learned
way of employing his pocket-handkerchief.
I have heard him cough until
I could hear the echo of the ages. The
audience does not kuow wnat ne is
talking about, and he does not know
either. The only cheerful part of his
sermon is when ho gets through. Now,
when men are genuinely learned, they
are simc le in phraseology and manner.
I never knew an exception to that.
But.a little levrning will o.'ten'rnake a
man swell beyond all reasonable pro
portions. Ob, drop year sesquipedalian
phraseology, and nse t-hort, sharp,
plain words.
I have seeti a lako of wa;er twenty
feet deep, so clear 1 hat if you dropped
a silver half dollar to tho b "torn you
could see it. And tha re is such a thing
as being deep and clear at the same
time. Au Euglisbman crosse I the
Channel to France, and was exceeding
ly disturbed by the fact tbat he could
not understand a word of th? French
language. He was met at the depot
by a Frenchman, and the driver of
the cab talked to him in French
When he got to the hotel he found
nothing but tbe French language
'lieie, an J a man with French lan
guage took him to hi conch at night,
and he was almost exhausted because
of hie incapacity to understand any
thing that was being said to him; and
in a sad mind he went to sleep. In
tbe morning he woke np and heard
the chanticleer crow, and he said
"Thank goodness, fhere's some Eng
lish at la?t." And what a relief it is,
after hearing some men talk in learned
technicalities, foreign to our capacity,
to suddenly hear something the plain
est people can understand. I know
only one uee for words and that is to
let men know whatyouraean. Chris
tian at Work.
iiavugant When X contended that k
tho;;c wires JOuld be ustd across the
Atlantic, acd prophesied that the day
would come when they would encircle
the globe, I believed this and so con
tended with my incredulous compan
10ns,
This is a1! that I am entitled to any
credit for. It was some three or four
years before Mr Morse's invention.
Mr. Morse is entitled to the ho nor
of having put the invention into prac
tice, which was certainly more impor
tant to the world than the mere intel
lectual conception.
During the years 1831- 5 b '7, elec
tricians in England, France and Ger
many made more or less progress in
this invention. It proved, however,
in Morse's hands more vital and sue
ceesful than in the hands of any one
else, and hence he was held by the
world as the original inventor. I
unite with all the world in according
to Prof. Morse the honor justly due
to the triumphs of genius.
Whether or not Prof. Morse ever
derived any benefit from my labors is
only matter of suspicion with me.
The circumstances were -these : A
gentleman by the name of tPage was
commissioner of patents at Washing
ton. He had acquired considerable
reputation as an electriciarj. I knew
him by reputation as an electrician
but was ignorant of the lct that he
was connected with the paent office.
In 1833 when this conception of an
electric telegraph and the manner of
woiking it was sufficiently perfected
in my own mind to justify its revela
tion to men of science I wrote to Mr.
Page on the subject. I Jccompanied
my suggestions with, rude drawings
of the machinery and askd Mr. Page
what he thought of it My object
was to obtain the opinion of a scienti
fic man. My communication was con
eluded in polite and respectful terms
and 1 naturally expected borne sort of
n t
answer. Air. Jfage, nowever, never
reDlied to me in any way. I then let
the matter drop and directed my at
tention to my studies, only occasiona'
ly renewing my suggesSions among
my friends.
Some four years after my communi
cation to Page I was one day rather
startled by seeing a nottee in a news
paper stating that a partnership had
been formed by Page, Smith, Amos
Kendal and Morse to patent and put
in operation Morse's invention. I
was still more suprised to learn that
Pae, being examiner of patents, was
prohibited by law from taking a pa
tent in his own name. I learned also
that Page was the son -in law of Amos
Kendal, and that there were some
other considerations tljat gave cohe
sion to said partnership. I immedi
ately sat down and wrote to Page,
charging him with having used my
suggestions for his own benefit and at
the same time I published a com
munication in the Washington Globe,
making the same charge publicly. Mr.
Page answered my publication ad
mitting the receipt of my suggestions
tastes in the ranks of tho faet young J pUise from one hundred and twenty-
men who are getting in their crop of
wild oats. There is nothing much
cheaper than such a ta?te: indeed, it
is wonderful how cheap are all kinds
of culture compared with the differ
ent sorts of dissipation. A young
man who has his business to study
and whose livelihood and hope of ad
vancement in the world depends alto
gether on his own exertions, will have
brief time to devote to other things,
but such time may be well filled up,
and by cultivating a taste for that
which is improving and elevating, in
whatever department it may be, any
inclination in an opposite direction is
effectually destroy ed.
John Wesley
In the beginning of the last century,
the Cnurch of England was at its last
gasp, itsciergy a by-.word, ils laity
the prey to every vice and heresy.
lhere rose up one of her priests, a
simple earnest men. His life had at
trac'.ed attention and even persecution
as early as his university days. He was
devoted to the CLurch, as to his moth
er in the faith, loving her teachings,
services, and discipline, clinging to
her sacraments, and anxious so to
serve her as to rouse her people to
true holiness of 1 fe. He was deferen
tial to those in authority, and most
earnest in seeking their consent to
carry the tidings of salvation to the
sinful and indiffareut. How did the
Establishment tre it him? It opposed
him in every possible way, and drove
him from the pulpits and altars of the
Church he loved It bad the opport
unity, by using him and others who
sprang np around him, for the rekmd
ling of zeal ia the coldness of de&tb,
and filling the waste places of the
Church with ioy and gladness. It
preferred the sorrow of sin and de
pravity to the j y of holiness, death
to life, separation to uni.y and streng
th the great legacies of theChurche'it
Master, it was John IPesley who was
thus driven out. Me. Mackosochu,
in Nineteenth Century.
Politeness-
Many a man, raised from poverty
and obscurity to wealth and honor,
can trace his rise to civility; it is sure
to reproduce itself in others, and he
who is always polite will be sure to
get, at least, as much as he gives
We believe it was Macaulay who de-
hned politeness as oenevoience in
small things . The French, who are
nothing uHess satirical, declare po
liteness to be the zero of friendship's
thermometer.
Feiejtds axd Fortcxe. With a clear
sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze,
you can have friend? ia plenty; but let
Fortune frown and the firmanent be
overcast, and then your friends will
prove like the strings of a late, of
which you will tighten befor6 you
will find one that will bear the stretch
and keep the pitch.
six to sixty in the course of a few
hours by giving full vent to his emo
tions. If people are at all unhappy
about anything let them go into their
rooms and comfort themselves with a
loud boo-hoo, and they will feel a
hundred per cent, better afterward.
In accordance with the above, the
crymg of children should not be too
greatly discouraged. If it ia syste
matically repressed tho result may be
St. Vitus' dance, epileptic fits, or some
other disease of the nervous system.
WThat is natural is nearly always use
ful, and nothing can be more natural
Uian the crying of children when any
thing occurs to give them eithor phy
sical or mental pain.
Starting in tho World.
Many an unwise patent labors hard
and lives sparingly all his life for the
purpose of leaving enough to give his
children a start in tho world, as it is
called. Setting a young man afloat
with money left him by hia relativoa
is like tying blad lets under tho arma
of one who cannot swim; tea chance!
to one he will lose his bladders and
go to the bottom. Teach him to
swim, and he will never need the
bladders. Give your child a sound
education, and you have done enough
for him. See to it that his morals are
pure, his mind cultivated, and hia
whole nature made subservient to laws
which govern man, and you have
given what will bo of more value than
the wealth of the Indies.
are some men so low down that it ia
said they cannot bear to have the
smell of their clover go into the high
way for fear that other folk will get
something that belongs to them with
out paying for it; there are some men
who are said to begrudge bees the
honey which they take from their
flowers without leaving anything be
hind; but that is doubtless imaginary.
A man whose heart does not respond
to an act of doing good or giving
happiness is no longer a man. He
has passed tho line of manhood, and
should be ranked among beasts.
The next General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church will be held in
Pittsburgh, Pa., and it is intended
that the Assembly shall, instead of
burdening the hospitality of the city,
pay its own expenses. Pittsburgh
ought not allow that.
A popular clergyman in Philadel
phia delivered a lecture on 'Fools.'
The tickets to it read, 'Lecture on
Fools. Admit One.' There waa a
large attendance.
Contributor 'Why have
icserted my last article ? Was
long T Editor No, it was tj
row.'
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